1.0Blog iSciencehttps://iscience.blogactiv.euiSciencehttps://iscience.blogactiv.eu/author/iscience/Pierre Vigier, Deputy Head of Unit "Innovation policy development" in the Commisson's Enterprise Directorate-General comments on Europe's shortcomings in technology transfer: <em>Technology transfer happens when two conditions are fulfilled: First, the existence of a genuine economic interest and secondly that the right conditions for legal protection exist. The first point depends of the actors of technology transfer themselves, and the precondition for along-term effective collaboration is trust. What is needed is a cultural attitude towards knowledge sharing: Identification of the goals, building genuine shared interest.</em> <a href="http://iscience.blogactiv.eu/files/2008/05/pierre-vigier_50.jpg" title="pierre-vigier_50.jpg"> </a> Listen to the full interview with Pierre Vigier here: <a href="http://iscience.blogactiv.eu/files/2008/05/pierre_vigier.mp3" title="Pierre Vigier"> </a> ([mp3], 4:25 min) <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/" title="Flash Player download" target="_blank">If you have problems listening to the file, please download the latest Flash Plugin here.</a>rich